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Pocket Computer | The first laptop computers! "Click" the images to see more information.
Laptop and pocket computers have been around for decades, but bear little resemblance to today's powerful systems.
What defines a laptop computer? Most people agree on light-weight, battery operation, with the keyboard and display device in a self-contained package. A full-size keyboard may or may not be a requirement, depending on your view-point.
Even the earliest systems were true computers, with tiny keyboards and tiny screens. They required no operating system to control their simple hardware - they were usually programmable in the popular BASIC programming language, or had their own proprietary operating system. |
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